[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 132 (Friday, July 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37338-37339]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18339]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-351-826]


Small Diameter Circular Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, 
Line and Pressure Pipe From Brazil; Final Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Revocation in 
Part of Antidumping Duty Order

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping 
duty administrative review, and revocation in part of antidumping duty 
order.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen M. Kramer or Linda Ludwig, AD/
CVD Enforcement Group III, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
0405 or (202) 482-3833, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 27, 1998, the Gulf States Tube Division of Vision Metals 
(``Gulf States'') <SUP>1</SUP>, a petitioner in this case, requested 
that the Department of Commerce (the Department) conduct a changed 
circumstances antidumping duty administrative review to determine 
whether to revoke in part the antidumping duty order on small diameter 
circular seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure 
pipe from Brazil with respect to certain glass-lined seamless pressure 
pipe. Gulf States and Koppel Steel Corporation, the petitioners in this 
case, expressed no further interest in the relief provided by the 
antidumping duty order with respect to certain glass-lined seamless 
pressure pipe imported from Brazil. Accordingly, on May 22, 1998, the 
Department published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of 
changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and intent 
to revoke this order in part (63 FR 28357). We gave interested parties 
an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this changed 
circumstances review. No comments were received.
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    \1\ Gulf States was previously a division of Quanex Corporation.
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Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the 
current regulations, found in 62 FR 27296 (May 19, 1997).

Scope of the Review

    Imports covered by this review and partial revocation are shipments 
of seamless carbon and alloy (other than stainless) steel pipes, of 
circular cross-section, not more than 114.3 mm (4.5 inches) in outside 
diameter, regardless of wall thickness or manufacturing process (hot-
finished or cold-drawn) that (1) has been cut into lengths of six to 
120 inches, (2) has had the inside bore ground to a smooth surface, (3) 
has had multiple layers of specially formulated corrosion resistant 
glass permanently baked on at temperatures of 1,440 to 1,700 degrees 
Fahrenheit in thicknesses from 0.032 to 0.085 inch (40 to 80 mils), and 
(4) has flanges or other forged stub ends welded on both ends of the 
pipe. The special corrosion resistant glass referred to in this 
definition may be glass containing by weight (1) 70 to 80 percent of an 
oxide of silicone, zirconium, titanium or cerium (Oxide Group 
RO<INF>2</INF>), (2) 10 to 15 percent of an oxide of sodium, potassium, 
or lithium (Oxide Group RO), (3) from a trace amount to 5 percent of an 
oxide of either aluminum, cobalt, iron, vanadium, or boron (Oxide Group 
R<INF>2</INF>O<INF>3</INF>, or (4) from a trace amount to 5 percent of 
a fluorine compound in which fluorine replaces the oxygen in any one of 
the previously listed oxide groups. These glass-lined pressure pipes 
are commonly manufactured for use in glass-lined equipment systems for 
processing corrosive or reactive chemicals, including acrylates, 
alkanolamines, herbicides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and solvents.
    The glass-lined pressure pipes subject to this review are currently 
classifiable under subheadings 7304.39.0020, 7304.39.0024 and 
7304.39.0028 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS). The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and U.S. 
Customs' purposes only. The written description of the scope of this 
review remains dispositive.

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Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty 
Order

    The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in glass-
lined seamless pressure pipe from Brazil constitutes changed 
circumstances sufficient to warrant partial revocation of this order. 
Therefore, the Department is partially revoking the order on small 
diameter circular seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and 
pressure pipe from Brazil with respect to certain glass-lined seamless 
pressure pipe as described above, in accordance with sections 751(b) 
and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d)(1). This partial revocation 
applies to all unliquidated entries of the subject glass-lined seamless 
pressure pipe not covered by the final result of an administrative 
review.
    The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to proceed 
with liquidation, without regard to antidumping duties, of all 
unliquidated entries of certain glass-lined seamless pressure pipe as 
described above, in accordance with section 778 of the Act.
    This changed circumstances administrative review, partial 
revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance 
with sections 751 (b) and 782(h) of the Act and sections 351.216, 
351.221(c)(3) and 351.222(g)(1)(i) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: July 2, 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-18339 Filed 7-9-98; 8:45 am]
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